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Charles Barkley Says Kobe Bryant Was Almost Member of ‘Inside the NBA’

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July 14, 2011 - Seoul, South Korea - LA Laker KOBE BRYANT brings his NIKE Asian tour to Korea to give a clinic held in Hwa-Jeong Tiger dome at Korea University for teens

What could have been for Kobe Bryant.

Apparently Kobe Bryant had another media venture that he considered once before eventually passing on it. And that was being a member of the NBA on TNT Thursday night crew.

Sounds like the NBA on TNT Crew would have been a mixture of Charles Barkley, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson. That’s according to Charles Barkley.

The NBA on TNT host visited Draymond Green’s podcast and explained how Bryant had actually signed a contract to come on the show but “didn’t want to do all the other [expletive].”

“He had signed with us. David Levy, my old boss, had signed him to a deal. And we were excited. We were really excited. And then he called me back a week, 10 days later…like, ‘Yeah, Kobe’s not going to come.’ I’m like, ‘why?’ Because he don’t want to do all the PR stuff. He don’t want to go on radio shows and talk about basketball. Like, well, that’s part of the gig…He didn’t want to do all that and he never came to work for us.”

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What could’ve been, man.

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